trappa

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Swedish trappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɹaʰpːa]

Noun

trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

1. stairs, stairway

Declension

f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trappa	trappan	trappur	trappurnar
accusative	trappu	trappuna	trappur	trappurnar
dative	trappu	trappuni	trappum	trappunum
genitive	trappu	trappunnar	trappa	trappanna

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: trappas, trappât

Verb

trappa

1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

Latin

Alternative forms

• trapa

Etymology

Borrowed from Germanic. Compare Old English træppe. Found in the Lex Salica.

Noun

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. trap
2. trapdoor

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trappa	trappae
genitive	trappae	trappārum
dative	trappae	trappīs
accusative	trappam	trappās
ablative	trappā	trappīs
vocative	trappa	trappae

Derived terms

• trappula
  • Italian: trappola

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Franco-Provençal: trapa
    • Old French: trape, trappe
      • Middle French: trappe, trape
        • French: trappe
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: trapa
    • Occitan: trapa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: trapa
  • Galician: trapa

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• trappen

Noun

trappa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trappa f

1. definite singular of trapp

Swedish

en trappa

Etymology

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Faroese trappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²trapa/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

trappa c

1. staircase, stairway, stairs, flight of stairs

   Hon gick upp/ner för trappan

   She walked up/down the stairs

   Trappan har tjugo trappsteg

   The staircase has twenty steps

Declension

Declension of trappa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	trappa	trappas
	definite	trappan	trappans
plural	indefinite	trappor	trappors
	definite	trapporna	trappornas

Descendants

• → Finnish: rappu, trappu (dialectal)
  • → Ingrian: trappu (from earlier trappu)

See also

• tr.
• trapp

Verb

trappa (present trappar, preterite trappade, supine trappat, imperative trappa)

1. See trappa av, trappa upp and trappa ner.

Conjugation

Conjugation of trappa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	trappa		trappas
supine	trappat		trappats
imperative	trappa		—
imper. plural1	trappen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	trappar	trappade	trappas	trappades
ind. plural1	trappa	trappade	trappas	trappades
subjunctive2	trappe	trappade	trappes	trappades
present participle		trappande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• rulltrappa (“escalator”)
• trappa av
• trappa ner
• trappa upp
• trappavsats (“landing”)
• trapphus
• trapplopp
• trapplöp
• trappsteg
• trappstege (“stepladder”)
• trappuppgång

References

• “trappa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “trappa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “trappa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• trappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• rappat, tappar, tappra